Department of Education federal obligations in South Carolina (agency 091)

What the Education–South Carolina join is

Awarding agency 091 and place-of-performance state SC meet here. $4,739,313,878 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Education’s nationwide budget, not South Carolina’s entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. Statewide school-district and university folklore may send a reader here. Those stories are not packet NAICS and not a student census.

1,514 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — a moderate award list beside a multi-billion obligation total. A moderate row list can still mix large formula awards with smaller instruments. The join does not rank South Carolina against other states and does not name districts or campuses inside the extract.

Open Department of Education in South Carolina for the filtered table, South Carolina federal spending for the next hub, Department of Education for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.

Education actions under a South Carolina geography tag

Dividing $4,739,313,878 by 1,514 yields about $3,130,326 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical Title I grant. Repeat awards and modifications still add rows; the listed count is not a unique-recipient census and not a count of students. District names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars.

Statewide school-district and university folklore is a coding conversation, not a packet field. Agency names and recipient rows live on the overlay table, not in this narrative’s extra columns.

Agency 091 without a South Carolina overlay is a different total

The agency-wide Department of Education page aggregates 091 without requiring SC geography. The South Carolina federal spending page aggregates all agencies with South Carolina place of performance. Only Department of Education in South Carolina applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 1,514 awards and $4,739,313,878.

Place of performance in South Carolina is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list SC while later work occurs in North Carolina or Georgia. Education awards coded to those states do not sit in this total even if the vendor’s mailroom is in Columbia. This packet does not split Columbia from Charleston or Greenville.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $4,739,313,878 is the former. This packet has no outlay total, no fiscal-year split, and no de-obligation history. Citing the figure as money already spent in South Carolina over-reads the field.

Award count 1,514 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the South Carolina–ED overlay. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug.

What this pair does not prove

A large Education total in South Carolina does not mean the agency caused South Carolina’s school mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between enrollment geography and Education awards is expected; it is not a finding about test scores or waste.

Keep $4,739,313,878 labeled as agency 091 obligations with South Carolina place of performance. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset. An agency name that appears near a donor occupation is a coincidence of labeling, not a cash pipeline into USAspending.

How to cite the South Carolina–Education pair

A clean footnote names awarding agency 091 (Department of Education), South Carolina place of performance, $4,739,313,878 in obligations, and 1,514 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $4,739,313,878 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $3,130,326 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical Title I grant.

Department of Education in South Carolina, South Carolina federal spending, Department of Education, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $4,739,313,878 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Columbia-versus-Charleston folklore is not a metro split in this packet. District names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars. Keep the obligation label in every reuse. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much has Education obligated in South Carolina?

USAspending.gov records $4,739,313,878 in obligations for awarding agency 091 with South Carolina place of performance, covering 1,514 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Department of Education’s nationwide budget. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Does this total include every South Carolina school district?

The extract lists 1,514 award actions totaling $4,739,313,878. Average obligation per award is about $3,130,326, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical Title I grant. Unique recipients are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Is this a Columbia-only Education total?

No. $4,739,313,878 and 1,514 awards are statewide South Carolina place of performance. This packet does not split Columbia from Charleston or Greenville. A regional cut would be a different extract. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live Education–South Carolina table?

Department of Education in South Carolina is the overlay. South Carolina federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Department of Education shows agency 091 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.